On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:21:48 +0100, NY, an OBVIOUSLY brain damaged
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:


I forgot

You forget that you are supposed not to feed the troll, senile idiot! BG

When my dead wheel was run into by the drunk on the bike, I was driving my
mum's Renault 6 with very soft rolling suspension, like many French cars of
the 1970s and 80s. I had a lucky escape because I was probably driving a bit
faster round bends than I should have been (the dreaded "I've passed my test
about a year ago, I'm pretty good at driving now" arrogance - *not*
something I'm proud of) and if the car had gone out of control due to the
tyre overheating and coming off, I'd have probably crashed. As it is, I
didn't feel any difference in handling beforehand. The only things that made
me suspect that something was wrong were the noise of the rim on the road as
it had cut through the tread, and the smell of very hot rubber. It was scary
to think that I had no other sensation of the car pulling to one side or
rolling more on right hand than left hand bends. Fortunately the rim of the
wheel was not dented and could be re-used once a new tyre was put on it.

Nowadays you get "tyre deflation" warnings if a sparrow farts in the wrong
direction, so a tyre would never get that flat without you knowing. Our
Honda's warning system is very sensitive and gives a lot of false warnings.
After we had a genuine slow puncture, we had to get one tyre changed, so
there was a brand new tyre and one that had done maybe 10,000 miles on the
same axle. It took several weeks of driving, cancelling the warning whenever
it sounded (and initially, checking that the pressure really wasn't low)
before it stopped alerting us to a problem. I presume it didn't like the
slightly different diameters of the tyres of different ages. Does a larger
(newer) tyre tend to wear down slightly quicker than an older one on the
same axle? Could it be that after a few weeks' driving the difference in
diameters was less pronounced (if the new one had worn down to the same
level as the older one)? Does the relative wear of different ages of tyre
depend on a) whether its steered wheels or the back ones, b) whether the
axle is driven through a differential or totally independent wheels? In our
case, it was the rear wheels on a Honda CR-V 4WD, so the rear wheels *are*
driven, even if normally most of the power goes through the front axle
unless that loses traction.

Oh, wow, another senile bull**** artist! LOL